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After a tape surfaced last week of Donald J. Trump, the 70-year-old Republican nominee who has long been accused as having very short fingers, bragging in 2005 about grabbing a woman's "pussy," he repeatedly dismissed the lewd comments by invoking a phrase used as shorthand for sexually explicit male communication. It was nothing more, he said, than "locker room talk."
"Locker room talk" has a long history—one which, it should be said, hasn't usually included sexual assault—and that history includes another presidential campaign, and another female candidate.read more

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